Orson Scott Card Quotes
You as stupid as they come. Of course, I say this with your best interests at heart. Most people are stupid. I don't hold it against them.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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My best friend is my husband.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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I was born free.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters.
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I get a lot of backlash for wearing designers that I feel are creators and artists. I get it all the time.
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We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are certain to persevere. The decrees of God concerning election are immutable. They do not change, because He does not change. All whom He justifies He glorifies. None of the elect has ever been lost.
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What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental apparatus from the start. There can be no doubt about its efficacy, and yet its programme is at loggerheads with the whole world, with the macrocosm as much as with the microcosm.
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I believe that people who do not vote in this country have no right to complain about the government that we are now living under. By the same token, if you don't really vote in television, you're never going to have your way. Write a letter to the president of the network.
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You as stupid as they come. Of course, I say this with your best interests at heart. Most people are stupid. I don't hold it against them.
